Anyone had success with Patreon?

Does Patreon work for writers?

Yes

No

Maybe.

I keep seeing Patreon on writer's pages. It looks like its replaced Paypal tip jars, but does it work? I might drop a tip in Paypal but I'm not signing up to Patreon just to give and it looks like its regular donations only. Can authors really make money this way?

I was holding off, hoping someone would reveal the magic trick to make Patreon work, but for me...nope. I tried it for a couple of web series, and got one whole dollar offered. The same series was happily selling ebooks, so it wasn't the quality or the following that was the problem, just that those followers wouldn't use Patreon.